Advertising Business Quotes - Page 2

• Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Money, Fear, Animal Intelligence

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.29, University of Toronto Press

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• The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

  David Ogilvy

  Creativity, Humor, Thinking

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• When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.

  Steve Jobs

  Creativity, Artist, Obvious Things

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.35, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

  Jerry Della Femina

  Fun, Business, Believe

  Jerry Della Femina (2010). “From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harb: Front-Line Dispatches from the Advertising War”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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  Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

  Leo Burnett

  Creativity, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without smiling.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Fun, Golf

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Sex, Fun

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• Golf is the most fun you can have with out taking your clothes off.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Fun, Golf, Clothes

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• Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

  Herb Pomeroy

  Music, Fun, Clothes

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• Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

  James Adams

  Earth, Reason Why, Persons

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• Advertising in the final analysis should be news. If it is not news it is worthless.

  Adolph Ochs

  Wise, Witty, Business

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• Advertising is the greatest art form of the 20th century.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Business, Journey

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• Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Marketing, Buckets

  Attributed

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• In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

  William Bernbach

  Real, Evil, World

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• A principle isn't a principle until it costs you something.

  William Bernbach

  Principles, Cost

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• The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

  Claud Cockburn

  Government, Mind, Want

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• I'd never assume an audience was anything but totally receptive and perfect. Seriously, it seems to me that's the only circumstance you can work under. Otherwise, speaking for myself, you may as well be in the advertising business.

  Tom Verlaine

  Perfect, May, Assuming

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• I'd like to be remembered, as a copywriter who had some big ideas. That's what the advertising business is all about. Big ideas

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Bigs, Remembered

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• What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

  Salar Kamangar

  Thinking, Goal, Google

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• [Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. They're in the advertising business.... So let's not kid ourselves. If you want to hear music, go buy a guitar.

  Elvis Costello

  Kids, Guitar, Two

  "Elvis Costello plays with words and praises" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2002.

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• Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

  Dean Acheson

  Business, Feet, Chinese

  Dean Acheson (1980). “Among friends: personal letters of Dean Acheson”, Dodd Mead

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• I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity

  Julie Christie

  Integrity, Nice, Thinking

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• It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

  Patrick Collison

  Wells, Devices, Models

  "How Stripe Plans To Make Mobile Pay" by Owen Thomas, www.businessinsider.com. March 21, 2013.

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• You can say on one hand the market is crazy but it's not 1999. People have had their medicine from overexuberance. I find it really interesting that those two businesses, Yahoo! and Google, which are just online advertising businesses, are valued at more than the media behemoths in America.

  James Packer

  Crazy, Media, Hands

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